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bdeshiandClaude Opus 5 ec6e9838f0 rename docs/ to harness/, and reserve docs/ for the reader
docs/content-model.md opens with "Engine specification". It is also where the
rule lives that a leading underscore makes a file unaddressable — and the human
who owns this site did not know that rule, because nothing in this repository is
addressed to an author. Twelve documents named docs/ while being exclusively
about building the parser is a signpost pointing at the wrong room.

Naming the directory for its audience makes the gap visible instead of hiding it.
docs/ is now reserved and deliberately absent: an empty docs/ is an honest
statement that end-user documentation does not exist, where docs/ full of parser
specs was a claim that it did.

HARNESS.md stays at the root. Root holds the three entry points — README.md for a
human, CLAUDE.md for an agent, HARNESS.md for whoever maintains the machine — and
harness/README.md is the map of the directory, so moving the guide inside would
have collided with it for nothing.

Mechanical and wide: 100 path references across 24 files. Every verify.sh gate
that names a doc by path, the directory lists the dangling-path and ADR-number
gates scan, surface.sh's output target, the Makefile, CLAUDE.md's read order, the
skill, four commands, and two Go package comments. A first pass with a shell loop
silently edited only four files and the rest still said docs/; the fix was to
write the file list out and check the remaining count was zero rather than trust
the loop's exit status.

No rule, threshold, gate or obligation moved — this is a rename, and the gates
demonstrated it twice: they stayed green on the new paths, and the ADR-number gate
caught ADR-0082 before the entry existed.

Deferred, both on the human's call: the end-user documentation site itself, which
wants its own decision about where it lives and whether its claims are gated; and
moving examples/ under docs/, since demo-site is a live site root that verify.sh,
the coverage test and make demo all point at, and moving it would couple a rename
to a design nobody has made.

31 files, +146/-106.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-02 20:11:06 +06:00

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Record an architectural decision in six lines

Append an ADR to harness/decisions.md using the exact format at the top of that file.

First, before writing anything: find the doc that owns this topic via the ownership table in harness/README.md and read it. If it already carries the rule, do not write an ADR — amend that doc and say that is what you did. An ADR that restates an existing doc is a duplicate, not a decision.

Rules:

  • Next sequential number. Never renumber, never rewrite an existing entry.
  • To reverse a decision, add a new ADR and mark the old one superseded by ADR-NNNN.
  • Six lines. If the reasoning needs more, the decision is not yet made.
  • Revisit if: must name a specific observable event, not "if requirements change".
  • If the decision adds a dependency, update scripts/allowed-deps.txt in the same change.
  • If the decision raises a budget, update scripts/budgets.env in the same change and state the old and new values in the ADR.

If the argument for $ARGUMENTS is thin — no forcing reason, or no consequence you can name — say so and ask one question rather than writing a hollow entry.